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Obamas' Race to the Top program emphasizes improving quality education and improving teacher quality.
With this program there is a lot more expected from teacher's, making their job even more challenging then it already is.
Teachers will not be evaluated on their students academic achievements, through their academic growth and test scores.
Race to the Top now suggests five accountability measures for teachers:
"A teacher effectiveness measure that reports on whether program graduates help their K-12 students to learn
Measures of classroom teaching performance of program graduates built on reliableand valid classroom observation instruments
Persistence rates in teaching for all program graduates, disclosed to the publicfor up to five years post-completion
Feedback surveys from program graduates and from their employers
A new system of teacher licensure testing, with the number of current tests cutby more than 90 percent, and with every state adopting the same tests and the same pass rate policies" - Crowe, E. (2011, March). Race to the Top and Teacher Preparation, analyzing state strategies for ensuring real accountability and fostering program innovation. Center for American Progress. Retrieved from http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/03/pdf/teacher_preparation.pdf.
“Effective teachers” are defined for the Race to the Top as those “whose students
achieve acceptable rates (at least one grade level in an academic year) of student growth.” - Crowe, E. (2011, March). Race to the Top and Teacher Preparation, analyzing state strategies for ensuring real accountability and fostering program innovation. Center for American Progress. Retrieved fromhttp://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/03/pdf/teacher_preparation.pdf.
- Obamas' Race to the Top program emphasizes improving quality education and improving teacher quality.
With this program there is a lot more expected from teacher's, making their job even more challenging then it already is.same pass rate policies" - Crowe, E. (2011, March). Race to the Top and Teacher Preparation, analyzing state strategies for ensuring real accountability and fostering program innovation. Center for American Progress. Retrieved from http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/03/pdf/teacher_preparation.pdf.
achieve acceptable rates (at least one grade level in an academic year) of student
growth.” - Crowe, E. (2011, March). Race to the Top and Teacher Preparation, analyzing state strategies for ensuring real accountability and fostering program innovation. Center for American Progress. Retrieved fromhttp://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/03/pdf/teacher_preparation.pdf.